How To Use No man's land In A Sentence
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But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
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But it's worth noting that Wood delivers Spooner's final description of the barren no man's land with such exaggerated portent that it could easily be a leg-pull.
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in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression
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British and German troops climbed out of the trenches to play soccer in no man's land.
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And the bad news about this is that, what that means is the homes that are right between the primary levee and the secondary levee, if the water overtops the first, and the mud levee stops the second, that means any homes right in the middle -- and it looks like just one long row of homes, they'd be in no man's land.
CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2009
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Broadway these days is a no man's land for new musicals, and a museum, a mausoleum, for old ones.
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We quickly sped away from Fremont and into industrial no man's land.
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Historically, the region has always been known as the borderlands, a sort of no man's land of some 65 million people stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, people whose identities have been confused and sometimes willfully distorted by the ebb and flow of competing empires.
Trouble Next Door
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According to our author, who foresaw "No Man's Land" between the two opposing forces, "there will be formed a certain zone absolutely impassable in consequence of the terrible fire with which it will be inundated from a short distance from each side.
Face to Face with Kaiserism
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WHEN I met Scott, I was somewhere between the before and after picture - in a no man's land called cosmetology school.
NYT > Home Page
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They try to disappear into the no man's land of safe houses and new identities.
Times, Sunday Times
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News From No Man's Land mixes the anecdotage of the earlier books with a much more explicit and opinionated analysis of the state of television news.
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Until then, these vehicles had been waiting in the so-called No Man's Land, the strip of land on the border between Iraq and Jordan.
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About 4 000 French and 1 200 West African peacekeepers are patrolling the no man's land between the antagonists.
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On this occasion I went over the hillside farm, and the same thing happened; the Germans spent most of the night in heaving shrapnel and high-explosive gas shells into us, and at dawn they dropped one of the heaviest protective barrages for their own men that I have ever seen them start, but they were not quite on to the game our boys had played, because half an hour before, our men, with the companies that were supporting them, crept out into No Man's Land as close up to the German trenches as they could get with any degree of safety, so that when the Germans dropped their barrage on the front line there was nobody there but the wounded.
The Artillery at Passchendaele
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He argued that conscious anti-Semites, especially "the 'unadjusted' veterans," would identify unconsciously with the GIs: "just demobilized, ordinary, white native Protestant, 'our kind, '— a band of comrades with battle records, plagued by the unhappinesses and insecurities of that new, troubling No Man's Land between war and postwar.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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He thinks to himself that, if it were not for war, he would not be about to go off and kill the fellow just like himself in the trenches on the other side of no man's land, but would be sitting down and having a drink with the man.
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So they sailed round the Cape, calling the southeasterly extremity "Point Cave," till they came to an island which they named Martha's Vineyard (now called No Man's Land), and another on which they dwelt awhile, which they named Elizabeth's Island, in honor of the queen, one of the group since so called, now known by its Indian name Cuttyhunk.
Cape Cod
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A 100-metre long bunker all down the left side is waiting to gobble up anything mishit, though the long, narrow bunker protects you from no man's land bordering the trap.
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Assam is open to foreigners but some areas are riddled with bandits, while the ‘no man's land’ between unneighbourly India and Bangladesh is patrolled by bored but trigger-happy armies.
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No man's land is less than a mile wide and contains a handful of stalls selling fish and caviar.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only two indie films to be given Oscars this year were Iris and No Man's Land.
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Instead of facing a firing squad, however, they were abandoned in no man's land so that they would be killed by crossfire.
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The men on either side of no man's land had much cultural hinterland in common, notably football.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was left stranded in no man's land with constant Mujahedin gunfire strafing overhead.
CODE BREAKER
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The men on either side of no man's land had much cultural hinterland in common, notably football.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have backed off their original positions but can't bring themselves to re-employ Bush's so they're left in no man's land, having no alternatives to turn to.
Bin Laden should go to Gitmo, Grassley says
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Earth from the ditch was piled into a second wall, and in the large No Man's Land which existed inside these siegeworks no tree or object tall enough to serve as a battering ram was left standing.
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As a sniper, he spent most of his time between the lines of trenches, in ‘No Man's Land ’, hunting other snipers.
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He is a citizen without a country, trapped in a no man's land of fast food outlets and endless shopping opportunities.
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No man's land is less than a mile wide and contains a handful of stalls selling fish and caviar.
Times, Sunday Times
